Vasundhara Raje's IT team launches online campaign promoting her yatra

In order to spread the word about Raje's Suraj Sankalp Yatra, and to help people track
her progress, a "Vasundhararaje" app has been created by her IT team, for
android and iPhone which has been downloaded by 2,500 persons so far.

Even as Vasundhara Raje traverses the length and breadth of Rajasthan, a dedicated group of IT-savvy volunteers of the Rajasthan BJP have launched an online blitzkrieg detailing her Suraj Sankalp Yatra.

In order to spread the word about Raje's yatra, and to help people track her progress, Yashwardhan Singh has created a "Vasundhararaje" app for android and iPhone which has been downloaded by 2,500 persons so far. Talking about it, the coordinator of the IT-savvy team, Asad Anwar Khan, says, "The app is updated regularly with pictures and details about her yatra and is connected to GPS which reveals Raje's precise location at any given time."

Raje's Facebook page "Vasundhara Raje for Rajasthan CM" is maintained by Virendra Sharma. The page has so far received 69,722 likes so far. Raje's official website vasundhararaje.in also directs the viewer to the Facebook page.

A bulletin board window on the site also has fresh updates about her yatra apart from the website surajsankalpyatra.com which is maintained by Racy Sharma. The website gives details of Raje's yatra, detailing her location, where she is staying and live updates about the welcome she gets from people at various places that she visits. The site is updated every 15 minutes. For example, today it highlights her comment that her yatra has made Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot come out and meet people.

Based in Jaipur, the party's IT cell functions round the clock. It has also updated the official website of the state unit, rajbjp.org<http://rajbjp.org>.

Raje's bus in which she is to travel 13,000 kilometres though is not so high tech. Although Gehlot of Congress has accused her of travelling in a luxury five-star bus which he said he was too keen to visit, the vehicle has a two-seater sofa, a few chairs, a small table , a wash room and a television which she rarely switches on. But still the going can get tough in the bus as the roads it takes are mostly broken.

Raje and her team have no doubt managed to generate a lot of interest in her yatra. So much so that it has now become the talk of the town everywhere she goes and she has been getting regular and good media coverage.

Bureaucrats who were earlier seen close to Gehlot and had been on plum postings are apparently working their way out to less cushy jobs so as to be seen as victims of the previous regime in case Raje returns to power. However, what is worrying the party is the fact that given the enthusiasm in the party and the people, many people are going to be seeking an assembly ticket. How Raje will pacify and take along with her those who don't get the assembly tickets will test her true skills as a political manager and will decide if she will win and by how much margin.